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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sides were being marked and flagged with the information brought home by far-ranging reconnaissance. It has been a long time since French military planes flew over Germany, or German over France, and there were many changes to be photographed, sketched or observed before both sides were ready to begin real firing...
...entertainment, The Rains Came suffers from the fact that it uses its salvo of disasters not to solve the problems of its characters, but to heighten them. Since these characters to begin with are as slick and typical a pack as ever cavorted through a Louis Bromfield serial in Cosmopolitan, after the rain they seem sadly washed out and anticlimactic. Chief among them are Tom Ransome (George Brent), a remittance man from a good county family, his old flame Lady Edwina Esketh (Myrna Loy), who deserted him to find a rich husband, and Major Safti (Tyrone Power), the handsome, high...
...Nothing arrived in time to catch today's edition. Still receiving copy noon our time. When did you begin filing...
With five minutes to go the Exchange governors took a hurried, panicky vote. The acting chairman was in his balcony above the Exchange floor and worried dealers were waiting for the gong to begin trading. (Noble had said it was not to ring until he gave the word.) Four minutes before 10 o'clock the word came: The Exchange had been closed. It did not reopen until November 28 (under restrictions not entirely removed until April 1, 1915). By that time the panic had passed, the New Federal Reserve act was in effect...
...youths named Jerry Siegel, who writes the continuity, and Joe Shuster, who draws the pictures. Shuster went to the Cleveland School of Art and Siegel just went to high school. Last year they started something called the American Authors'* League to help ambitious and unknown authors, decided to begin by helping themselves, and concentrated on comic strips. Superman, the only one they have sold, first turned up in Action Comics, a monthly, was taken up by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate last January. It now appears in New York City, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, St. Louis and many another large...